A short daily tune, performed by Arduino, will make you remember those 8 bits of the eighties!

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Arduino Nano MOD, S3M, XT, IT player

CHIPTUNE PLAYER

It is possible to play chiptunes using an Arduino Nano without additional shields, simply adding a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) built using resistors. VERSION EN ESPAÑOL

Chiptunes must be in MOD, S3M, XT or IT format. They have to be converted to a format named Profundic Music File (PMF) by its creator Jarkko Lempiainen. It's a kind of compressed and simplified format to be incorporated in Arduino projects

Using pmf_converter.exe tool, the aforementioned audio formats can be converted to FLASH constant data for Arduino!

In every entry of the blog, there is a video of a different chiptune, also a downloadable file with the arduino source code, schematic, and the original tune!